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Topic: SKY + and Broadband

Posted By: radixon
Subject: SKY + and Broadband
Date Posted: 30 May 08 at 7:54pm

I am seriously out of date so someone please help me.

Family member has asked me all about Sky and its broadband service, is anyone with them and if you are, do you recommend it or stear clear of it?

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Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 30 May 08 at 8:40pm

***political bit***
Rupert Murdoch, owner of Sky, may well be the anti-christ.
***political bit***

For broadband I'm with http://www.bethere.co.uk/ - Be . They're ace.

For sky+ type stuff, get a Freeview PVR. Not as many channels as Sky maybe, but enough.

Posted By: Mark Antony
Date Posted: 30 May 08 at 9:27pm

It works well for me. £16 per month for good speed broadband and Sky+ package.

There are £50 cash back offers on at the moment. PM me for the intro if none of your family circle have the link (It's worth askeng them as it's £50 each for new user and introducer)

Posted By: timeintheboat
Date Posted: 30 May 08 at 11:55pm

I don't watch telly but the rest of the family love Sky+. We are in a blackspot for Freeview but now we apparently have 100+ channels of what I can only presume is pure drivel.

I was concerned from switching from PlusNet - who had a good reputation and I had been with for years- to Sky broadband (ex EasyNet?) but it went better that I could have expected.

I set the Sky router up myself as I want to use my settings rather than Skys. I have had no problems at all in 6+ months. The router has been excellent - is on all the time - 4 wired, 4+ wireless attached to it - not a problem - which is more than I can say for my old Linksys router.

That having been said we don't use Sky for our email preferring to use the excellent service from 1&1 - keeping our email independant of our ISP.

No problem recommending it even less so for the £50 for referrals!

Correct about Murdoch though......

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Posted By: ptcruiser
Date Posted: 31 May 08 at 8:31am

Sky+ is great and if you have an HD TV, get a Sky+HD box, as they currently have the most HD channels available.

Posted By: 29er397
Date Posted: 31 May 08 at 11:00am

We have Sky+ and Sky broadband and landline, all works out to be much cheaper than the BT/wanadoo mix up we had before. The net works fine and we've had no trouble with it in over a year. However we have had 3 Sky+ boxes all of which have been incredibly temperamental, quite often none of the buttons on the box or the remote will work which, as much as i love Top gear repeats on Dave, you can only take so much of Jeremy Clarkson.

Box aside, the Sky+ is awesome and well worth getting, being able to rewind telly is a novelty that doesn't wear off quickly. The Sky anytime feature is also very good, I'm not sure if you get that with the regular box though.

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Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 02 Jun 08 at 11:49am

get broadband seperately and just use freeview for another 6 months or so, until free sat comes out with a high def hard drive recorder box, £200 one off payment and no subs. cant wait to get shot of my sky subscription!

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